In the aftermath of St. Piran’s Day, we bring you a celtic theme this month with input from the FXU Celtic Society at Falmouth and Exeter University. Read more below to find out what they offer to those studying in Cornwall. We have recently set up a Celtic Society for Falmouth and Exeter university students. This…Continue Reading “FXU: Celtic Society”
Contributing writer Emma Gibbs uncovers what it was like to be behind the scenes at one of Duchy Ballet’s dance rehearsals. The Duchy Ballet will be performing The Snow Queen and Stepping Out to Gershwin at the Hall For Cornwall on the 11th and 12th of March. The Duchy Ballet is a non-profit organization that helps inspire and…Continue Reading “Duchy Ballet: The Snow Queen”
Join Jackie Harding as she tells Cornish Story about her journey walking towards St. Michael’s Way in late Autumn last year. Towards the end of October, we met at the isolated railway station on the Hayle Estuary at Lelant. The wooden station building is now a house, weathered, with window boxes and a weather vane,…Continue Reading “Towards St. Michael’s Way”
Join Alan Nance as he traces his great, great grandfather’s footsteps from Catalonia, France, to Plymouth. His relative’s old diary, which dates back to nearly 200 years before, accompanies him for the entire journey. Read on to find out more about Alan’s story. I arrived in Plymouth aboard the Armorique, he on the William and Amelia. I had walked a thousand…Continue Reading “Dehwelans: Return”
Jackie Harding tells Cornish Story about her journey walking from Chapel Porth to Nancekuke in late September last year. In this regular series of features she will be mapping these kinds of stories onto the physical landscape of the Cornish coast. On the last Sunday of September we arrived at Chapel Porth. It was so early that…Continue Reading “Chapel Porth to Nancekuke”
Historian Stephen Roberts uncovers one of Cornwall’s most notable families, a band of brothers, the Tangyes, and their life’s industrial work throughout Victorian Britain. When the theatre manager F.W. Davies, speaking at a dinner of the Midland Cornish Association in February 1907, described Richard Tangye as ‘the foremost Cornishman of his day’, no one would have…Continue Reading “The Tangyes of Illogan”